Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng encountered the Eternal Life Sword Master, retrieved a secret canon from the Epoch Sword Palace, and strengthened Ye Qingcheng’s sword inheritance and weapon. Chen Zheng and Ye Qingcheng then departed, leaving the Eternal Life Sword Domain free to leave its isolated spacetime.

• Dao Ancestor Yunji’s Dao heart shattered, and he vanished as Chen Zheng asked the Eternal Life Sword Master about his master, Jian Cang.
• The Epoch Sword Palace sent an inheritance into Ye Qingcheng, and the frosty woman bowed to Chen Zheng before returning to the palace.
• Chen Zheng drew out the secret canon, which the Eternal Life Sword Master said had suppressed the Eternal Life Sword Domain’s ability to leave its special spacetime.
• Chen Zheng sent the secret canon into Ye Qingcheng, awakening her Nether Absolute Sword Physique as swords across the Eternal Life Sword Domain rang out.
• Chen Zheng took a vein of divine iron from the northwest and used it to refine the Unrivaled Sword, which devoured its artifact tribulation.
• Chen Zheng sent the Unrivaled Sword into Ye Qingcheng and departed with her from the Ninth Heavenly Circuit Sword Platform.

Ye Qingcheng awakened her Nether Absolute Sword Physique a second time and helped the Azure Cloud Realm advance into a Great Thousand World. When cultivators from other realms arrived to seize its power of creation, her sword annihilated them all, leaving her invincible beneath Dao Ancestors.

• Chen Zheng told Ye Qingcheng her Nether Absolute Sword Physique had awakened a second time and directed her to help the Azure Cloud Realm advance.
• Ye Qingcheng cleaved open the sky with a sword strike, and the Azure Cloud Realm absorbed immortal spiritual power and rapidly advanced as its inhabitants broke through in cultivation.
• Cultivators from other Great Thousand Worlds arrived to claim the realm's power of creation and resources, with Luo Jiuxiao of Divine Wood Cliff demanding a major share.
• Chen Zheng ordered the intruders slain, and Ye Qingcheng's sword reduced them all to nothingness.
• Chen Zheng explained that Ye Qingcheng's strongest sword strike could defeat nearly anyone beneath Dao Ancestors, and Gui Bu and Old Ghost Fox fainted.

Ye Qingcheng reached the Heavenly Emperor Realm after the Azure Cloud Realm ascended, and Chen Zheng learned that the realm’s newly freed Heavenly Dao had caused the breakthrough. The Great Samsara Sacred Lamp identified Ye Qingcheng as having the potential to become a Creator, while the Trans-Spacetime Wheel teleported Chen Zheng and his companions away to a slow-time cultivation place; meanwhile, Little Bone prepared to wait for Chen Zheng in Great Dark Heaven.

• Chen Zheng scanned the ascended Azure Cloud Realm, learned that a Heavenly Dao had broken free of the Heavenly Dao Palace’s control, and saw Ye Qingcheng become a Heavenly Emperor.
• The Azure Cloud Realm’s Heavenly Dao appeared before Ye Qingcheng, bowed to Chen Zheng, and entered the space between Ye Qingcheng’s brows at his direction.
• The Great Samsara Sacred Lamp judged that Ye Qingcheng had the potential to become a Creator, then stole magical power from Beyond the Universe and helped Chen Zheng advance to second-rank Golden Immortal.
• The Trans-Spacetime Wheel revealed that it could teleport Chen Zheng to a place where time flowed extremely slowly, then sent him and the others away.
• In Great Dark Heaven, Little Bone dismissed the Yama Clan’s request to send forces to the Azure Cloud Realm, while the metal cat said he had sensed spacetime beacons left by his former master.
• Chu Hongyi asked Little Bone to let her visit Chen Zheng, but Little Bone told her to cultivate until she reached the Heavenly Emperor Realm.

Chen Zheng and his companions entered the Land of Stopped Time, where cultivators gained vast stretches of cultivation time but faced periodic trials. As more entrants arrived, a Foundation Establishment cultivator named Qi Hao eagerly mistook Chen Zheng for a benefactor who could advance his cultivation.

• The Artifact Spirit of the Trans-Spacetime Wheel brought Chen Zheng and his companions to the Land of Stopped Time and returned to his primordial spirit.
• The Dragon Desolation Battle Flag spotted the stone stele and wondered whether time standing still meant they could live forever.
• An old cultivator warned them that periodic trials determined whether they could stay, and explained that one person had transcended the place after exhausting its benefits.
• Several new people arrived, including a Foundation Establishment cultivator who asked if the powerful beings around him would become his teachers.
• Qi Hao approached Chen Zheng, introduced himself, and asked him to pass on magical treasures or help improve his spiritual root.

Chen Zheng noticed that the Land of Stopped Time consumed its cultivators’ lifespans, but the old man dismissed his warning and accused him of trying to manipulate the others. When the land’s will tried to expel Chen Zheng and his companions, he resisted, while Dao Ancestor Hongyun was expelled for asking what he had discovered.

• Ye Qingcheng shattered the ancient battlefield trial with one sword, and Chen Zheng’s group passed the preliminary trial.
• Chen Zheng examined a stone stele and a cave, then said the Land of Stopped Time was not very good because its cultivation time was tied to lifespan.
• Qi Hao and the other cultivators questioned whether the land consumed their lifespans, while the old man insisted Chen Zheng was lying to gain more cultivation time.
• The Land of Stopped Time tried to expel Chen Zheng and his companions, but Chen Zheng resisted its power.
• Dao Ancestor Hongyun asked Chen Zheng what he had noticed and was immediately expelled by the land’s will.

Chen Zheng exposed that cultivation in the Land of Stopped Time consumed lifespan, and the Will of the Land confirmed the danger while refusing to fix it. Chen Zheng traced the source to the legendary figure connected to Stopped Time Cliff, revealing that she was a woman and apparently a powerful deity.

• The Will of the Land of Stopped Time appeared and failed to expel Chen Zheng and his companions.
• Chen Zheng woke the cultivators and explained that someone had altered the Land of Stopped Time, causing cultivation there to consume lifespan.
• The Will admitted that cultivators lost lifespan in exchange for rapidly gaining magical power, then gave everyone ten breaths to choose whether to stay or return to their worlds.
• Chen Zheng questioned the Will's loyalty and used Trace the source to reveal images of the legendary being associated with the stone cave on Stopped Time Cliff.
• The cultivators realized the legendary being was a woman who appeared to be an immensely powerful deity.

Chen Zheng confronted Shi Hai over his control of the Land of Stopped Time and warned that the Jade Xiao Divine Empress threatened its creator’s design. The Divine Empress sensed the past being revealed, appeared through the frozen image, and challenged Chen Zheng after he mentioned the Eternal Divine Mountain.

• The Dragon Desolation Battle Flag explained that Epoch Hegemons stood above Dao Ancestors and could survive an Epoch Calamity.
• Shi Hai told Chen Zheng to leave the Land of Stopped Time, but Chen Zheng said he was an old acquaintance of Shi Hai’s master and wanted to repair a flaw in the land.
• Chen Zheng warned Shi Hai that the woman’s ambitions and Dao opposed his master’s, prompting the woman’s image to speak and unleash her divine might.
• Shi Hai addressed the woman as the Divine Empress and blamed Chen Zheng for prying into her past.
• Chen Zheng mentioned the Eternal Divine Mountain, and the woman identified herself as the Jade Xiao Divine Empress who controlled the Second Divine Palace.

Chen Zheng severed the Jade Xiao Divine Empress’s connection to the Land of Stopped Time by restarting the realm and its will. He left for the Azure Cloud Realm with Ye Qingcheng, while Qi Hao stayed behind hoping for another chance to cultivate.

• The Jade Xiao Divine Empress accused Chen Zheng of impersonating the Grand Emperor and tried to crush him with her divine might, but Chen Zheng was unharmed.
• Chen Zheng gave the Land of Stopped Time’s will ten breaths to sever its connection with the Jade Xiao Divine Empress and restore the realm.
• Chen Zheng swept his hand and shattered the Land of Stopped Time and its will, then restarted them and restored the realm to its original state.
• A dark gleam devoured the Jade Xiao Divine Empress’s will incarnation when it attacked Chen Zheng, and the restored will of the Land of Stopped Time ordered everyone to resume cultivating.
• The old man bowed to Chen Zheng and left, while Qi Hao begged to follow him; Chen Zheng declined and teleported away with Ye Qingcheng to the Azure Cloud Realm.

Chen Zheng created a Land of Stopped Time that rapidly increased its users’ magical power, with Princess Zhengyue reaching Dao Ancestor-level power and Ye Qingcheng approaching that realm. As the main selection for the Son of the Heavens neared, Chen Zheng named Holy Emperor Pan as the one in charge.

• Qi Hao panicked after realizing he might have exposed his identity, but the Will of the Land of Stopped Time warned him that past-life memories did not make him exceptional and revealed that its master had awakened.
• Chen Zheng explained that he had created the Land of Stopped Time using Sands of Time and sent Zhengyue, Ye Qingcheng, Old Ghost Fox, and Gui Bu inside to cultivate.
• Old Ghost Fox emerged with Golden Immortal-level magical power, and Gui Bu later emerged with Dao Lord-level power.
• Ye Qingcheng emerged after three days with peak Half-Step Dao Ancestor magical power, which Chen Zheng said could let her threaten a low-realm Dao Ancestor with her strongest strike.
• Zhengyue emerged with Dao Ancestor-level magical power, then flew into Chen Zheng’s brow as the Eye of Heavenly Punishment appeared and dissipated.
• Chen Zheng said Ye Qingcheng should test her sword in the coming main selection for the Son of the Heavens, then told Gui Bu that Holy Emperor Pan was in charge.

Chen Zheng and Ye Qingcheng arrived in the Eternally Evergreen Realm, where the final selection for the Son of the Heavens was underway. After Chen Zheng’s attempt to survey the realm drew the attention of powerful forces, Ye Qingcheng destroyed a warship and its Sever Heaven Sect crew with one sword strike.

• Chen Zheng explained that the Eternally Evergreen Realm was a sealed battlefield holding the candidates who had passed the preliminary selection for the Son of the Heavens.
• A Heavenly Immortal told Chen Zheng and Ye Qingcheng about the realm’s Dao Domains and the Eternally Evergreen Immortal Hall, where its inhabitants could learn more about it.
• Chen Zheng’s attempt to survey the realm triggered a strange phenomenon, and the Heavenly Immortal warned that powerful orthodoxies might investigate.
• The Sever Heaven Sect arrived aboard the Rakshasa Ship, and its cultivators threatened Chen Zheng and Ye Qingcheng after learning they were involved in the phenomenon.
• Chen Zheng ordered them cut down, and Ye Qingcheng’s sword strike erased the Rakshasa Ship and every Sever Heaven Sect cultivator aboard.

Ye Qingcheng received a Heavenly Decree ordering her to reach Eternal Immortal Mountain, and Chen Zheng learned that a demon was sealed in the Eternally Evergreen Realm. When the Sever Heaven Sect attacked Talisman Sea City, Chen Zheng had Ye Qingcheng destroy its distant mountain gate, then she annihilated the fleeing Azure Demon Emperor.

• Ye Qingcheng told Chen Zheng that she had ten days to reach Eternal Immortal Mountain in the Evergreen Dao Domain or be eliminated.
• A Heavenly Immortal explained that Eternal Demon Mountain was the site of a demonic lineage whose weakest members were in the Patriarch Realm, and Chen Zheng confirmed that a demon was sealed in the realm.
• The Azure Demon Emperor arrived with a Sever Heaven Sect warship and demanded that Ye Qingcheng kill Chen Zheng and accompany him to the sect.
• Chen Zheng searched the Azure Demon Emperor's primordial spirit for the location of Sever Heaven Mountain and told Ye Qingcheng to cut down the sect from afar.
• Ye Qingcheng slashed toward Sever Heaven Mountain, and the Azure Demon Emperor discovered that the mountain and the entire sect had vanished.
• The Azure Demon Emperor tried to escape, but Ye Qingcheng's sword destroyed him and the dark warship.

Chen Zheng learned about the selection for the Son of the Heavens and encountered Dugu Qian, whose ten thousand lifetimes misfortune Dao body and Misfortune Heavenly Disc drew Creation Little Doll’s attention. Creation Little Doll took Dugu Qian and the disc into Chen Zheng’s brow, while Chen Zheng refused to trade her for Yanluo.

• News spread that the Sever Heaven Sect had been destroyed after a mysterious female cultivator’s saber strike.
• Chen Zheng explained the Son of the Heavens selection and the anomalies in the Eternally Evergreen Realm to Ye Qingcheng and a Heavenly Immortal.
• The Heavenly Immortal revealed that his name was Dugu Junqing and asked Chen Zheng to restore his sister Dugu Qian or make her mortal.
• Dugu Qian arrived and challenged Chen Zheng with the Misfortune Heavenly Disc.
• Creation Little Doll identified Dugu Qian’s ten thousand lifetimes misfortune Dao body and took her and the disc into Chen Zheng’s brow.
• Creation Little Doll offered to trade Dugu Qian for Yanluo, but Chen Zheng refused.

Chen Zheng learned that the Power of Heaven had appeared in the Rising and Sinking Dao Domain and set out with Dugu Junqing to find it. At Divine Vulture Palace, competing orthodoxies gathered around the Power of Heaven, and a purple-eyed youth challenged the palace master before Chen Zheng and his companions arrived.

• Chen Zheng explained that the Power of Heaven could qualify its bearer for the final contest at Eternal Demon Mountain, gave Dugu Junqing the Eternally Evergreen Art, and flew north with him.
• At Divine Vulture Palace, its master warned the gathered orthodoxies that she could not subdue the Power of Heaven and threatened to settle accounts with them afterward.
• Old Ancestor Xuangu of the Cloud Heaven Upper Sect tried to claim the Power of Heaven but was blasted down by the palace master.
• A purple-eyed youth offered the Divine Vulture Palace master a wager, proposing she become his mount if he claimed the Power of Heaven and offering a Sinful God Pill if he failed.
• Chen Zheng, Dugu Junqing, and a woman arrived above the Power of Heaven, drawing the gathered cultivators' attention.

Chen Zheng collected the Power of Heaven and gave it to Ye Qingcheng, then effortlessly defeated the purple-eyed youth from the Deriving Heavenly Clan. He hurled the youth out of the Eternally Evergreen Realm and sent a message to his father, Tiangang Godfiend.

• The purple-eyed youth demanded that Chen Zheng, Ye Qingcheng, and Dugu Junqing come down, while the Divine Vulture Palace Master warned them that the Power of Heaven was beyond their ability to subdue.
• The purple-eyed youth attacked with godfiend power, but his strike vanished before it could harm Chen Zheng and the others.
• Chen Zheng gathered the Power of Heaven into a white ball and sent it into Ye Qingcheng, then asked the purple-eyed youth if he had learned the move.
• The purple-eyed youth revealed that he was the future patriarch of the Heaven-Deriving Godfiend Clan and transformed into his godfiend form.
• Chen Zheng asked who the youth's father was, then flung him out of the Eternally Evergreen Realm and told him to say that Ancestor Chen had disciplined him.

Chen Zheng erased the Cloud Heaven Upper Sect’s warship and its cultivators after they challenged his right to give the power of Heaven to Ye Qingcheng. He spared the Rising and Sinking Dao, revealed that Ye Qingcheng had destroyed the Sever Heaven Sect, and left the Divine Vulture Palace’s mistress accepting Ye Qingcheng as her master instead of him.

• A Cloud Heaven Upper Sect cultivator questioned Chen Zheng’s right to give the power of Heaven to Ye Qingcheng, and Gudu Junqing identified the sect as one of the Floating Dust Dao Domain’s three great Demon Sects.
• Chen Zheng erased the Cloud Heaven Upper Sect’s golden warship and everyone aboard after Old Ancestor Xuangu warned him to leave.
• Chen Zheng let the Rising and Sinking Dao depart after Gudu Junqing confirmed it did not initiate attacks on other orthodoxies.
• Dugu Junqing revealed that Ye Qingcheng had destroyed the Sever Heaven Sect from a hundred thousand li away, shocking the gathered cultivators.
• The Divine Vulture Palace’s mistress knelt and offered to accept Chen Zheng as her master, but he directed her to accept Ye Qingcheng instead.

Ye Qingcheng accepted the Divine Vulture Palace Master's submission, and Chen Zheng shrank the Divine Vulture Palace before leaving with the group. At Eternal Demon Mountain, outsiders and powerful natives entered to contend for the Holy Emperor Fate, while onlookers could not see through the demonic qi; then Chen Zheng's group arrived.

• The Divine Vulture Palace Master acknowledged Ye Qingcheng as her master, and Ye Qingcheng introduced herself as the realm lord of the Azure Cloud Realm.
• Chen Zheng shrank the Divine Vulture Palace and left with Ye Qingcheng and the others.
• Cultivators gathered outside Eternal Demon Mountain discussed powerful outsiders entering it and learned that they were seeking the Holy Emperor Fate.
• A youth in white entered Eternal Demon Mountain, prompting native cultivators, including the hall master of the Evergreen Immortal Hall and the sect master of the Ten Severances Sect, to follow.
• Onlookers failed to see through Eternal Demon Mountain's demonic qi and wondered what was happening inside.
• Chen Zheng's group arrived, and the onlookers recognized the Divine Vulture Palace Master standing beside a female sword cultivator.

Chen Zheng swallowed the demonic qi surrounding Eternal Demon Mountain, revealing the battle within and drawing the attention of the powerful cultivators inside. The fight halted as eight women from beyond the world recognized him and paid their respects as Ancestor Chen.

• A blue-robed cultivator warned the Divine Vulture Palace Master that powerful outsiders had entered Eternal Demon Mountain, while a fierce battle raged within.
• Chen Zheng absorbed all the demonic qi surrounding Eternal Demon Mountain, making the battle and its combatants visible to the onlookers.
• A demon hundreds of zhang tall fled the mountain, knelt before Chen Zheng, and begged the Demon Lord to save it.
• The boy in white, the master of Evergreen Immortal Hall, and other cultivators confronted Chen Zheng, while the outsiders also emerged from the mountain.
• Bai Nishang, Cangsheng, Shen Wulei, Wu Qingyan, Qi Ruyi, Ji Chunyu, and two other women bowed to Chen Zheng and called him Ancestor Chen.

Chen Zheng confronted Pan Tianhua as nine women wielding powers of Heaven gathered around him, and he shattered the Heavenly Punishment Eyes before forcing the Son of the Heavens selection to begin. Pan Tianhua awakened and unleashed his power of Heaven against Chen Zheng, leaving Dugu Junqing to warn him.

• Pan Tianhua tried to seize the kneeling demon, which escaped underground, and he then attacked Chen Zheng.
• Ye Qingcheng, Bai Nishang, Qi Ruyi, Shen Wulei, Wu Qingyan, Cangsheng, Ji Chunyu, and Qin Yanzhi joined forces with their powers of Heaven to stop Pan Tianhua.
• Chen Zheng ordered the Heavenly Punishment Eyes to scram, shattering them, then demanded that the selection begin.
• The Heavenly Dao transformed the Evergreen Dao Domain into a cage and declared that whoever killed the gigantic true demon would become the Son of the Heavens.
• Pan Tianhua revealed that he could wield the power of Heaven, devoured the eight women's attack, and sent true dragons of power toward Chen Zheng as Dugu Junqing warned him.

Ye Qingcheng and Bai Nishang joined forces to slay the true demon, but the Heavenly Dao refused to name a Son of the Heavens because the victory violated its rules. Chen Zheng gave the voice in the sky three breaths to show itself, and a figure appeared.

• Ye Qingcheng and Bai Nishang linked their sword and saber attacks, crushing Pan Tianhua’s Power of Heaven and sending him flying when he struck at the true demon.
• Chen Zheng ordered Ye Qingcheng and Bai Nishang to slay the true demon, and their combined attack killed it.
• Pan Tianhua returned and claimed he alone should be the Son of the Heavens, but Chen Zheng addressed the sky and asked it to choose one.
• The voice in the sky declared that no Son of the Heavens could be chosen because two people had killed the true demon together.
• Chen Zheng gave the unseen speaker three breaths to show itself, and a figure appeared, changing Pan Tianhua’s expression.

Chen Zheng faced the Eternally Evergreen Realm's mutated Heavenly Dao in a Great Samsara Chess Game and defeated it effortlessly. After the Heavenly Dao tried to flee, Chen Zheng captured its azure pearl, but a gigantic axe appeared and destroyed its remaining manifestation.

• The azure figure revealed himself as the realm's Heavenly Dao and challenged Chen Zheng to a game, transforming the area around Eternal Demon Mountain into a starry chessboard.
• Chen Zheng said the Heavenly Dao had already lost, then shattered the chessboard with a casual point and explained that its Great Samsara Chess Game was incomplete.
• The Heavenly Dao tried to escape, but Chen Zheng caught its azure light with seven-colored divine light and collected its azure pearl.
• The Heavenly Dao's gigantic azure face roared that it would not let Chen Zheng off, but a gigantic axe appeared, split the face apart, and devoured its power.